If you are working in the Valley today chances are you are working with a person or a team that is located in a different timezone, be it in North America or overseas. And while the benefits of this kind of work environment can be debatable the extra effort required from the teams and their management is not; more thought is required in coordination and communications and meetings may need to occur in odd hours that may impact the personal time of those involved.

This interactive panel dissuasion on Remote/Overseas Teams is intended to help bring together the variety of experiences in this area from different companies, not just from our panelists but from the audience as well. Lets discuss the good, bad, best practices and anything else you may have in mind, we can all may learn a thing or two. This talk is not just for managers but also for the individual contributors who have to interact with remote teams and perhaps aspire to lead in the future. No matter what your level come join us, bring your thoughts, concerns and perhaps an horror story or two…

If you have a particular issue/question/problem you would like to see discussed at the session please e-mail the panel chair (Thomas De Lora) via the e-mail button on his Meetup member page.

Panelist Bios:

Sath Sathyanarayan

Sath is President of Offshoring Success LLC, an advisory firm specializing in improving effectiveness of offshore centers – outsourced and captive. In addition to pioneering work in offshoring for over two decades he has provided leadership to product development and IT organizations. Prior to Offshoring Success, he was a senior executive at a Fortune 500 Corporation, Founder and CEO of a startup. He has helped dozens of executives across industries achieve offshoring success. He has written a book on best practices for offshore development, published a number of articles and invited speaker at industry conferences. For his complete bio please click here.

Steve Mezek

Steve Mezak is CEO of Accelerance, the global software outsourcing authority. Accelerance helps clients who are struggling to hire programmers and who don't have the many months required to find & evaluate offshore software development firms. A referral to the best-fit, deeply-assessed software development companies in the Accelerance network of 30 partners in over a dozen countries around the world… takes just 48 hours, and is free.

Steve is also the author of the book Software without Borders. The 2nd edition was just announced and is being written in Agile development fashion. Go to the book website and share your thoughts and criticisms to get social media cred and your name printed in the final published work!

Tâm Nguyen

Tâm Nguyen has extensive experience working with global teams in Europe and Asia. As the Delivery Manager at TiVo, he leads a global team from multiple vendors to deliver the TiVo DVR to over 1 million Virgin Media customers in the UK. He also champions the use of collaborative tools for the full software life cycle, and designs best practices that use Jira for project/portfolio management, cross functional team coordination, and Agile team support.

Tâm received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and started his career at IBM Research, where he invented a hybrid digital/analog video hub for Video On Demand. He also architected Net.Data for building dynamic websites with IBM DB2 database, and negotiated with Panasonic's QA team to accept ReplayTV for shipment.

Sam Hahn

Sam Hahn is currently VPE at eGain where he has grown the Engineering Team from 30 in 2007 to 120 today while reducing the offshore operations from 90% to 25% in the same period. He is currently in charge of two major offshore centers in Pune and Delhi. Formally Sam was VPE at Purisma, Sales.com, and DocuMagix (also co-Founder), Director of Product Management & Engineering at Siebel Systems. Ex-Chair of TWAIN Working Group, Bootstrap Alliance. Member, VPE Community of Practice, CSPA Partner at Sand Hill Angels. He has a mathematics degree from Stanford is a Life Member of ACM and Monte Jade.

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